Romans 16:16

Salute one another As if to respond to the example set them in the Apostle's loving greetings.

a holy kiss So 1 Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 13:12; 1Th 5:26; 1 Peter 5:14. See also Acts 20:37. The kiss, as a mark both of friendship and of reverence, is still almost as usual as ever in the East. In the early offices for Baptism the kiss is given to the newly-baptized. (Bingham, Bk. 1 2. ch. 4.).

The churches A better reading gives, All the churches. He assumes this universal greeting, from the fact of the universal good-report of the Roman Christians. (See Romans 1:8.) And he offers it as a seemly message to the Christians of the mighty Capital.